I certainly hope you're wrong. I grew up in the Bay Area right near the fault line and a lot of my family and friends live there. It's not like we haven't been expecting it for a while though.

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So, do most Californians just think, "Nah, it's not going to happen in MY lifetime! And besides, I have no time to worry, I've got work in the morning."
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Pretty much. A lot of people there are used to experiencing them too. The thing about tectonic plates is that they could shift at anytime. It could go tomorrow or it could go in 100 years and nobody really knows if that shift will be small or HUGE. The Earth doesn't run by our 24 hour system. On a positive note, if it does happen, California has a much better infrastructure to deal with earthquakes than the parts of Japan that were hit.

I experienced a "small" 5.4 earthquake while I was on a wooden deck 40ft above the ground and it folded in half, then went back to normal. One of the scariest moments of my life. Our marble kitchen island has a shock wave go through it and it's still intact too.

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@tzir 17......I'm predicting quakes using intuition and thsi day in history/wikipedia''

How can you possibly predict something like this? I think you just got "lucky" (for lack of a better word) on the Japan ones. You do realize that small earthquakes happen extremely frequently along the Ring of Fire in the Pacific Ocean? THere's been more and bigger earthquakes in Alaska, Japan, and the Fiji Islands in the last 7 days than California.

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Your threads in the earthquake sticky are usually very good Cathar! Keep it up and don't let the trolls shake your resolve.

Never underestimate your intuition!

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Your threads in the earthquake sticky are usually very good Cathar! Keep it up and don't let the trolls shake your resolve.

Never underestimate your intuition!

Are you trying to say i'm trolling? I'm the only one that questioned his prediction of earthquakes off of intuition.

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Maybe the Yellowstone Caldera will blow up at 6am or 6pm and this debt problems won't matter anymore for us Uhmericans

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-e.e. cummings

Maybe the Yellowstone Caldera will blow up at 6am or 6pm and this debt problems won't matter anymore for us Uhmericans

@the lorax...I'm putting you on my ignore list...like I have the teenager Arqyclus........not because you have vomit on your shoes and a turd in your pocket......but because you have a reptillian eyeball as an avatar....

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